Angular2 item with ngIf flickers

Question

Background

I am creating a credit card form component. The component checks which credit card type has been entered, and shows a symbol/icon of the card type. The symbol is an external SVG that loads as soon as the credit card type has been identified.

Problem

The cc-symbol flickers, as you can see in the image below. A look in the Chrome DOM inspector shows me that something is going on with the element with the *ngIf applied to it, the element is being updated somehow (without any attributes changing) which seems to cause the flickering.

Code

Below is the code for the part of my template that contains the flickering part. I've checked the component and the variable used in ngIf isn't updated except when it's suppose to (when the credit card number is change to a one of different type).

<div class="credit-card-icon" *ngIf="creditCardType != null">
    <object type="image/svg+xml" [data]="getTypeIconUrl()"></object>
</div>

What could be causing this issue, and how would I resolve it?

UPDATE

It turns out that this is actually caused by the [data] attribute rather than having anything to do with ngIf. Sorry for blaming you, ngIf.

Answer 1

After writing this post it got me thinking about why it would try to update the DOM element object all the time. Turns out the solution was pretty obvious. Since the issue didn't occur with a static data-attribute, but only with a dynamically bound [data]-attribute, I guessed it had something to do with object equality.

In my component I use the bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl(url) method of DomSanitizer to "approve" the url of the icon.

However, the following statement is always false:

bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl(url) == bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl(url)

By caching the SafeResourceUrl returned from bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl(url) this issue is resolved!